I always feel guilty when I make posts like this. I feel that I’m arming anti-semites. Then I say, I can’t care, and the only question is whether what I’m saying is true. And I think it is true. So…
I often criticize the New York Times on this site, in fact I am about to get out my rusty Judy Miller popgun later for the Scott McClellan story. But today we really must celebrate the Times. Yesterday it ran…
John Mearsheimer isn’t entitled. He went on Israel National Radio to answer questions from two raving Israeli Zionists, Jeremy Gimpel and Ari Abramowitz, who start out by accusing him of “not necessarily the oldfashioned antisemitism” but “the sophisticated antisemitism… anti…
To the guys and gals of Black Rock: Respectfully, it’s just a matter of time before you do the Walt & Mearsheimer story. It’s just too important, and every week that goes by it becomes less radioactive and more conventional-wisdom….
In a Newsweek interview, Jeremy Ben-Ami of J Street, the new Israel lobby, takes a position that Jeffrey Goldberg says is antisemitic: that 9/11 flowed in part from our policies in supporting Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. Q. You’ll…
I took Michael Steinhardt and his daughter Sara Berman at their word when they said the charter school teaching Hebrew, in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, is just about spreading Hebrew culture, not about pushing Zionism. Joachim Martillo sees a pro-Israel agenda,…
Jonathan Gray has responded to my post that mentioned him and says I’ve misrepresented his views, and suggests that I made a racist comment, to boot. He writes: As for your desire to have me attack Sam [Freedman] about the…
William Pfaff, a columnist for the International Herald Tribune, born 80 years ago in Council Bluffs, living in Paris, offers the now-almost-conventional-wisdom in international circles that Israel has destroyed the future of a Jewish state through its greediness for land….
One of the pleasures of watching Scott McClellan is his sheer ordinariness. In the era of West Wing, the meritocracy, and the “overclass” (my new favorite expression, thank you Samuel Freedman), McClellan is an ordinary Joe. He’s pudgy and not…